Jack was quiet for uncomfortably long after this simple fact had made his life more complicated. His freshly gained girlfriend is actually an alien. There were a ton of romance novels fantasizing about this and yet real life did not conform with such ideas. Eva was still across the table, expression uncertain. Both of them were naked in the hotel room and yet that was a mere fact.
"Say something!" She practically pleaded.
"Just trying to gather my thoughts. I've got... like a million questions now!"
"Well, ask one! Come on... if you're gonna be quiet I can only assume the worst. You don't hate me or anything, do you?"
"For being from the empire? No... just trying to get the size of it. So... you're from over there?"
"Grew up on Athuras, yeah. Mom and Dad are still there." Eva tried to take this bit by bit.
"And you... did it with everyone?"
The attitude towards casual sex of the empire was infamous. Some had sought them out for such particular reasons, yet soon enough they proved that the aliens were not just free whores. Incest and more was downright acceptable to them, but they had a way to work.
"Since I was old enough, yeah... did it with everyone. Mom, dad, sister.... Teachers, friends. Still wasn't romance. Not this."
Jack had an interest in the aliens mostly for the controversial subject. Eventually some notions were at least explained to people who listened. They did not pursue casual sex in ignorance of established relationships, but in respect for them. And in retrospect, she had the attitude. Though it was relatively possible to achieve such a perspective here. The aliens were developing a fan club.
"This is gonna sound a bit offensive, but... you got anything to prove it? I mean... you could just be saying that."
"Nah, I get it. And I do."
Finger held up as her cigarette was put out and the girl walked over to her discarded clothes to fish out something. The boy expected so much more, yet the first glance was disappointing. Eva put on the table something that resembled, felt and very much could be assumed to be a simple button from a coat. Black, plastic and as small as a coin.
"That is a button. Unless it can do something more."
A smile given as she took her seat again and two fingers set on top of the item to... pull it apart. It stretched out until Jack was staring at a phone-sized and shaped lump of black plastic.
"That is a phone. I assume. Okay, is this one of those things you guys have that can just change shape?"
"Yeah, it's a link. Our version of smartphone. Can go small or big. Something to do with quantum storage. I don't know the exact science." A press on it made it light up and... yep, that was something to make all the computers on earth look like they ran on stone age tech. You could run Crysis twice on it. No further need of it for now.
"Why didn't you say this all from the start? We know you guys have a better attitude."
"Sounds like I'd be fishing for attention. But... it's my job." Eva did not hide anything.
"You mentioned that. So you going out to give good guys a bit of casual sex is your job here?"
"Sorta. Part of a conversion effort. Trying to put out good examples, shame the bad... call people out. We got guys and girls everywhere. Mostly girls."
"Just to make sure... you are human, right?" Jack might be only mildly surprised if his girlfriend was a synth.
"Yeah." A chuckle. "Sure, we got these disguise things, but you can FEEL the difference. If we're gonna fuck, people notice. Tan actually have really different skin texture and Zox feel like actual plants. Even Synth feel off to people after too much interaction."
"I'll be honest. You didn't feel off at all. Could swear you grew up here."
"We had a good training regimen. All the culture we need to know to fit in. What people think, what they know. You remember the cake is a lie?"
"That one's practically ancient! And fitting."
"All the single ladies and such others. Took them in well. We actually fit in better than most."
"So... nobody else knows you guys are here?"
Jack was trying to form the picture. Smokes were needed. His girlfriend clearly was so much more. But his interest came more out of wanting to make sure he could help. Clearly this was that stuff down there he could still notice when having sex.
"Governments know. But we try to not clue in the other people. The point is to try and give the idea that people are changing. You guys seem to be holding onto old ideas, so we're trying to lead by good example."
"Be the girl that you want other girls to be. Starve them of simps and such."
She gave a girlish chuckle at his phrase. But that was indeed a point. Women of high demands and low returns have had some fierce competition... and when men find easier work for better pay... they go there. They might keep their word if a relationship was already established, but if they were refused, one had no right to demand they be loyal to one who is not.
"Satisfying. But I do mean it that we hit it off. I spent the last week just going over it thinking I'm just getting some odd feeling... It's not. And if you want me to stop, I will."
"Thank you for saying that... but you don't have to. After all... you fucked a bunch of people before me and behaved. You're not leaving a boyfriend for me or anything, right?"
"Nah. No one hit it off before. I wasn't looking much, tho. Just... wandering around. We have girls here with boyfriends and such back home or around but... we take our promises seriously."
"Damn, so not the first one to seduce an alien either?" Jack was half-joking.
Another laugh from her. There was this grand desire to be special above all else. One did not need to overachieve, just achieve enough.
"Pffft! We had one falling in a week from the start! Nah, but it does not make it any less special. Or you any less special to me. You really are... Guh..." She gestured with no clear idea how to express herself. "Can't really word the entirety of it in just a sentence. You're a good guy I can feel safe with and more."
"And you just said you can't word it all." Jack smiled as the girl contradicted herself.
"Because that's not all!" She teased back. "But I mean it. Really hit me hard. Been going back and forth to make sure it was for real. I wanted you to give me some reason to back off." A sigh. "Then I realized I would just take those things to be challenges to face. And I've been doing this for months."
"Man can feel special that you went through them and found no reason to settle. Too much, too little?"
"Maybe just not what I was looking for... or needed. But, I do mean it. And I'm not some common whore to say next week that a guy got me better. We're sticking with it unless it shows we got it wrong and even then we'll try to work it."
"Uh, just to make sure... we didn't get married or something according to the traditions of your people or anything, right?"
"Oh no, we'd need our parents to come and participate, pee on us as we make love in front of 50 people." Her smile showed it was merely a tease. "Nah, but for real... you have to agree to it, right? It's a contract. What kind of fucking predatory contract has you sign it without knowing?"
"Well, I can name many. But, alright. Just girlfriend and boyfriend. Nice... yay me." Beat. "Uh... so should we keep your situation a secret or...?"
"If you want me to continue working, works best in secret. Kinda loses the idea if people know. I can tell you just about anything, you can talk with the others in my community. Heck, you can join it!"
"Uh, join in doing this sort of thing?"
A breath taken before she had to clarify.
"No, dummy... you sort of officially join the community. Means you want to help out people in there and they help you back. Don't need to... they might help to help me, but... they'd like it more if we both were sorta in."
"Sounds like a cult. Or the mob."
"And we have cameras everywhere back home, and a thousand things you seem to be afraid of on principle! Yeah, it might be... but it's for the good of the people inside. Don't want to leave you all alone out here. And you can leave if you want. I can leave if I want. But I don't want to. The guys actually help." Eva sounded tired of explaining it.
"Alright. Maybe. I'll have to meet the others." Beat. "We're kinda ruining the night."
That made her chuckle again. An honest smile. Then she stood up to give him an uncensored look at her body before stepping closer to plant a kiss on his lips. Light one before stepping back.
"No. We're handling ourselves. This is a relationship. Not just the fun and light feeling of butterflies and cock inside pussy. If we want that, stay friends."
"Well, I made my choice." And he very much enjoyed that kiss. It showed there was no bad blood between them. Just two people sorting out their baskets.
"So did I. Well, we got all night. More questions or go back to cuddling?"
"We could do both, but maybe keep like this for now. How did this start?"
Another cigarette was lit. She was gonna blow through the whole pack at this rate. He was tempted for one as well. If only the place had a minibar. Nowhere open around at this hour.
"After things calmed down we agreed on a sort of return of favor. Ten thousand of our random people would come over here. The trip was a bit more secret. So they show us the real world and such. Not trying to look their best. And not as random because we were offered to sign up. Then they picked from those."
A year ago, such a trip was given to the Earthlings. Most chose to stay after seeing just how utopian the empire was. Many on Earth still complained that they can't just go over there and give up on this planet. The delegates had a royal treatment. These ones... saw the real world.
"I assume it was far from a pleasure trip."
